smaug@eneevax.UUCP (Kurt J. Lidl) (05/12/88)
In article <628@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes: >In article <1959@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >> No, I mean like everything but printers, just about, is serial. > >Um... I'm not that old, and I've only been computing since about '77 >or so, and it's all been on micros (up untill last year), so I was >just wondering.. > >What peripherals besides printers have *ever* used parallel? Well, let's see, on the Amiga: Digitizers (video and audio) and a harddisk On my OLDER CBM equipment... (c64) The modem actually runs off a parallel port, along with a tricky bit of interrupt driven code. I *personally* have interfaced a robotic arm to a parallel port on the C64 (if you call that a "peripheral"... Also, a D/A converter, a A/D converter, and much, much more... >I've used Commodore equip forever, so it seems, and Motorola S8000's, >and a few other machines that had no parallel port whatsoever.. There >was never anything I wanted to use, or heard of, or even just played >with that needed parallel. Except some goofy AT&T printers... :-) Also, the IE488 is sorta a parallel device connector... HP finds it useful for all sorts of stuff, as does the old CBM line where they run printers, hard-disks, and other stuff off of it... >J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 -- ================================================================== == Kurt J. Lidl (smaug@eneevax.umd.edu) (301)454-6849 == == UUCP: [seismo,allegra]!umcp-cs!eneevax!smaug == ========"It's after 3am, no point in going to sleep now..."=======